Em 03-10-2013 12:42, Bruce Dubbs escreveu: > Kenno Han wrote: >> Hey everyone! I just found an interesting program that can be used to >> replace GNOME. It is called Mate Desktop, some of you might be familiar >> with it. Mate is actually a fork from GNOME 2. >> >> Maybe you should just check out their website at: >> http://mate-desktop.org > > This is an interesting idea, but I have a few questions about it. I > don't know how well it's supported. From what I can tell, it's based on > GTK+2 and I don't know how well that will continue to be supported. > > We had a go at Trinity a while back as an alternative to KDE3, but that > project didn't really have the support needed to keep up to date, > especially to keep Qt3 up to date. I don't know what kind of ongoing > support GTK+2 will have. > > I'm willing to look at Mate, but I think we would need to assure > ourselves that upstream long term support would be available. I see > that it is supported by the Linux Mint developers, so the support issue > may be OK. > > -- Bruce > >
I like very much Mint Mate, more than Cinnamon. However, I do note see it as a sign that there will be long term support. I used to like Mint LXDE, but it was discontinued. Also, IIRC, Ken has some experience with it, but gave up, after some problem(s?). -- []s, Fernando -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
